Diamantes lexicais : garimpando o vocabulário do romance Cascalho de Herberto Sales

Abstract

In the dissertation we had aimed to analyze the constant vocabulary in the literary work Cascalho (SALES, 2011), by the bahian writer Herberto Sales. The regionalist novel materializes social events that occurred in the diamond-digging of the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, revealing their daily lives. Thus, configuring the vocabulary invented by Ribeiro (2017) as a research corpus, consisting of 370 lexias, defined as simple, compound and complex, according to Pottier's conception (1972). The 370 lexias were carefully selected consisting of important linguistic aspects representative for the study of language related to culture, society and history. Organized in glosses in their meaning and context of use within the literature and, therefore, classified within nine lexical fields hierarchically divided into macrocamps, namely: geographic space; from nature; from the mines; of food; of the clothes; of armaments; of religiosity and popular manifestations; of sexuality and the body; of qualifiers. Subdivided into micro fields referring to the history and socio-cultural context of the mining community. In order to achieve the objectives, we use as theoretical and methodological foundation the postulate of the lexical fields proposed by Coseriu (1977); Abbade (2006) and Seabra (2015) concept of language, culture and society; the propositions about the study of the lexicon of Biderman (1981), Oliveira and Isquerdo (1998), Vilela (1995), among others listed in the references. In view of this, due to its lexicographic character, we consulted Ferreira (1999), Houaiss (2009), Moraes Silva (1890), Figueiredo (1913) and for macrostructure we use Barbosa (2001), Borba (2003), Welker (2004), Barros (2004) and other compendia that point the elaboration of dictionaries. The results were the organization of lexical fields that characterize the mining community, and a vocabulary defined and accredited from the occurrences in the novel. The 370 lexias collected are important because they have aspects related to local identity, opening the possibility for several studies. Being revealing, as regards, the socio-cultural and historical aspects, explaining the confluence between language, culture and society. Therefore, the lexical diamonds from the Cascalho vocabulary (SALES, 2011) have the relevance evidenced by the lexicon, history, society and culture of the community of the old diamond-digging. His language, as a vocabulary heritage, by the present work, incorporates the preservation of the linguistic memory of Chapada Diamantina.